The First Casualty Of War

Is the truth. We're so used to pictures of armed conflicts and the ongoing American wars against terrorism all over the globe, that we forget how strange war actually is.

_{image by Alec Perkins - source: Flickr}

What I mean is that under a dictator, or in the days of old, under the king or emperor, it's clear for everyone to see and understand how the people are motivated to send their sons in to a war. You go or you get punished, you fight or forfeit your own life, it's that simple: fear is the motivator here. Same goes for theocracies where there's also an absolute power giving the commands. But how do you get the people in a free and open democracy to freely send their young men and women to possibly die in a foreign country?

With lies, that's how. I said it in so many discussions, and I'll repeat it here: I cannot believe their has ever been a point in history where a group of young humans took up arms and left for a far away country to go and kill young people they don't know there. People, cultures, countries or other groups of people don't fight other groups of people. They just don't, there's no point. It's always the small circle of leaders that want something from another small group of leaders. And if they aren't a dictatorship but a democracy, they'll just have to lie, demonize "the enemy", or resort to a false flag operation to incite the people's rage.

One of my favorite sources of information, the corbettreport YouTube channel from James Corbett, published a great video yesterday that I want to share with you: from the Great War (First World War), all the way to the current wars in the Middle-East, he shows us all the lies and false flags used to keep us at war for over a century now. The pinnacle of this is the fact that there was an actual PR Firm (Hill & Knowlton) hired to literally sell the first Gulf War to the American people.

_{Debunking A Century of War Lies}

I stress that there's no use, and it wouldn't be fair to get angry with the soldiers that are sent abroad; they do so with love for their fellow countrymen and their country. The only reason I want to show this is because the news in the mainstream media is not to be trusted. And it's also very hard to find really trustworthy news-sources on the interwebs. Always be critical of anything you see or hear and try to seek out different points of view.

That's it for today my friends. Tomorrow I'll be back here, and hope you will be to :-) Thank you, as always, and keep steeming!

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